Recent content by Rose Immortal

And watch out if you see a license plate with "D" in it...if it doesn't mean "DEALER," you're in a lot of trouble. Diplomats can be some of the worst drivers, and if they kill you, they're STILL not held responsible!

I heard from friends there that houses stopped selling about a year ago. The prices are out of control there. In some locations a 1-bedroom condo will go for $700,000!!! I adore the area, traffic be damned. It's the cost of living that makes me not want to move there, though. :(

Ouch! I don't think mine ever ruptured, but that sounds painful! I had a lot of ear infections, and sometimes if my allergies are bad my ears will hurt--but that had to SUCK. :( BTW, good taste in coffee. ;)

Let me stop you right there. Disagreements are one thing, and I think they have to be accepted. I know very well that not everybody in the world believes as I do, and I think that it's unacceptable to treat a person badly because of that. What I continue to find aggravating in your words is...

Thought you'd enjoy it. It was just funny how someone passed that fact along at random on the same day I needed it! And :P ;)

Tinnitus doesn't always accompany a hearing loss...sometimes a hearing person will have it. For instance, you might've had a history of ear infections as a child, or you may have allergies or sinus problems...those things can cause it. For me it's always been there and it can be annoying on...

I dunno if you happened to see the etymology I presented for both the Arabic, Hebrew, and Phoenician/Canaanite terms for God? They all share the same root. I have that one on good authority from someone well-educated on the Arabic language.

What bothers me is that when Christians fall away from the faith, people are so quick to say, "Oh, he was never faithful in the first place." I think that's like saying, "We don't want him/her back--they clearly weren't worth it." Since I know that God wishes as many people as possible to join...

A warning about hearing chats...sometimes we're MAJOR slackers in the English department, in those places. ;) And you're very welcome. :)

You don't know this man's past, present, or future...and I don't think being rude to him will ever make him feel welcome among Christians. In fact, looking at what he said elsewhere, it was just this kind of rude behavior that put him off in the first place. I know how it feels, too. I...

Iceriver...I hope it gives you a good confidence boost to say that just from reading your message, I think you're starting off with grammar and spelling as good as many well-educated Europeans I've talked with and I have respect for. Nobody expects non-natives to be perfect, but it looks like...

About Semitic languages, I saw this fact today: El, Allah, and Ilah (the last from a language I'm not sure if it's still spoken these days...Canaanite? Phoenician?) are words that all come from the same root word. They all mean "God". In the case of Allah, it could also be written Al-lah...

I think the context wasn't quite clear...what I meant was, maybe whoever wrote the law about headphones and stuff thought hearing people can't cope with not hearing road sounds because they're so attached to their hearing. As for those laws...well, they're not always written by the sharpest...

I wonder if the assumption is that because hearing people are so attached to their hearing, that they'd be unable to cope without it as a deaf person could? ;)

Whoa! I wonder if his conscience got to him in the end. That would sure explain the stress. We had a convicted white-collar criminal come in to talk to our business classes awhile back, and that was one thing that stuck out in his lecture--in his case he said the stress was so bad that he...